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Here are some replays. Download and watch in VLC (Just tried in Windows Media player and it seems to work in there too). I will try upload and share in this thread each day. Unfortunately I missed the first and last race.

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Doesn't work on a computer because you can't select the individual races. Must be a bug. The phone/ipad app does work however. But it doesn't work during the race, you have to select the "leaderboard" ffs

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Here are some replays. Download and watch in VLC (Just tried in Windows Media player and it seems to work in there too). I will try upload and share in this thread each day. Unfortunately I missed the first and last race.

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Thank you. Being so screwed by Sky in NZ it is good to finally be able to watch. The NZ Bar one was very pixelate for me and maybe I will have to down load it again.

Watching Nathan deal to Jimmy again and again was good for this Kiwi Fan.

He did us a great favour in that race.

Once again thank you.

Interesting. What were you using to play them? I didn't check the videos completely before I uploaded them (About a minute after each race), I just jumped to a few points and they looked fine in VLC. Do people prefer the lower quality 200MB files or the 500MB files? The video quality isn't hugely different but I figure download size matters for some people.

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Here are some replays. Download and watch in VLC (Just tried in Windows Media player and it seems to work in there too). I will try upload and share in this thread each day. Unfortunately I missed the first and last race.

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Doesn't work on a computer because you can't select the individual races. Must be a bug. The phone/ipad app does work however. But it doesn't work during the race, you have to select the "leaderboard" ffs

Hey SD, save link and then open - works fine on a Microsoft surface

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Interesting. What were you using to play them? I didn't check the videos completely before I uploaded them (About a minute after each race), I just jumped to a few points and they looked fine in VLC. Do people prefer the lower quality 200MB files or the 500MB files? The video quality isn't hugely different but I figure download size matters for some people.

Your original download was great for me.

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Interesting. What were you using to play them? I didn't check the videos completely before I uploaded them (About a minute after each race), I just jumped to a few points and they looked fine in VLC. Do people prefer the lower quality 200MB files or the 500MB files? The video quality isn't hugely different but I figure download size matters for some people.

Stay with 500mb its pretty fast from AWS regardless. Oh BIG thankyou

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Interesting. What were you using to play them? I didn't check the videos completely before I uploaded them (About a minute after each race), I just jumped to a few points and they looked fine in VLC. Do people prefer the lower quality 200MB files or the 500MB files? The video quality isn't hugely different but I figure download size matters for some people.

lots of people in Oz with metered ADSL so 200MB for them would be nice for them. 500MB does look better

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I'm in New Zealand. I was using FABIPTV for the stream and recording in VLC. I recommend FABIPTV if you want to watch live. I used the SD and HD streams for the 200MB/500MB files. They have a FHD stream which is beautiful but too large to record in any sane amount of space.

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I should be watching all the races so its no biggie for me to record them and upload them. I might need to host it elsewhere as AWS might start getting pricey. Going to investigate a few options tonight.

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Here are some replays. Download and watch in VLC (Just tried in Windows Media player and it seems to work in there too). I will try upload and share in this thread each day. Unfortunately I missed the first and last race.

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Thank you. Google Drive worked much better for me than your other server, FWIW.

Great to hear. It seems much better than S3 as you can view it in the browser at 720p or 360p if my source stream allows. S3 would have been super fast to download if you were the Asia Pacific region but it does require downloading rather than streaming.

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If Artemis had just done what Frank did and just gone around the outside they would have beaten ETNZ.

Jimmy did to they now they do it to someone else. Jimmy bluffed them but I believe it was a good call by the umpires and Ar should have just gone a few metres wider and they would have been clear !!

Yeah. I thought it was a bad call from the umpires based on the Heli shot but watching from onboard Artemis I think in the end it was the right call. If Nathan had just gone a little wider and stayed out of the 3 boat length circle I think he would have won. I do feel really sorry for Nathan. He sailed really well for the rest of the race and their boat looks fast in the heavier breeze.

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Yeah. I thought it was a bad call from the umpires based on the Heli shot but watching from onboard Artemis I think in the end it was the right call. If Nathan had just gone a little wider and stayed out of the 3 boat length circle I think he would have won. I do feel really sorry for Nathan. He sailed really well for the rest of the race and their boat looks fast in the heavier breeze.

Yeah, clearly Artemis would have won even if they had gone 3 or 4 boat lengths further from the mark

Regardless of whether you agree with the penalty or not, IMO that makes the result a bit of a shame really.

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Great to hear. It seems much better than S3 as you can view it in the browser at 720p or 360p if my source stream allows. S3 would have been super fast to download if you were the Asia Pacific region but it does require downloading rather than streaming.

S3 was hopelessly slow last night but maybe I just need to try again later. I live pretty close to a massive Google data center as well. I have plenty of room to download whole races when I want to study them, like today's ART-NZL one for instance. But being able to stream is a very nice bonus in any case.

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Rudder, you're a star! May I suggest torrenting them to save you the big bills? These Google drive ones got leeched so hard, they were down almost as soon as you upped them. You appear to be pretty much the only free source for full replays in the world right now, so any hosting platform you use is gonna get hit hard. If you went with Channel BT, you could easily stick with the 720p encodes at ~500MB/race and drop the 576p ones in the squeezed 1.25 AR.

You can probably get some hosting ideas too from Rojadirecta. Heaps of Rugby on there for the NZers!

Good work though champ, you're a legend for allowing us to see what the organisers don't.

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That's probably the wrong tack in trying to limit your hosting costs. Word is going to get out and be shared no matter how restricted you try to make it. Better off using BT to share and thereby getting the downloaders to help with the uploading as well. Sharing the load so to speak so you're not the only one doing the heavy lifting. Loving your work so far. Hope you can keep it going for the next month since it seems we're going to get no joy out of their youTube channel - that KeepVid Pro installation I organised to rip all the 1080p encodes I thought they were going to be putting up was a complete waste of time!

Here are some replays. Download and watch in VLC (Just tried in Windows Media player and it seems to work in there too). I will try upload and share in this thread each day. Unfortunately I missed the first and last race.

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All are in google drive now. Torrents soon to follow. Please seed. Main seedbox is in the Netherlands so will be a little slow. I went through over half a terabyte hosting just day 2 racing so it was hard to find a seedbox that supports any decent amount of file transfer for a sane price.

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They were Rudder as of a few hours ago this morning when I got them. The download bandwidth limit had been reached by then for the originals from your account, so I had to use taylorb's hack in copying them to my Google drive and then downloading the copies from my account to get them, but it worked, so all good.

Shoved them in Avidemux and remuxxed out into MP4 format and then adjusted the pixel ratio back to 64/45 using My MP4Box for the 200MB 576p encodes and the end result plays perfectly on a USB stick plugged into a PVR on my 55".

I don't mind the little bit of mess about having to remux and adjust the aspect ratio. It's not a problem. You just save them in whatever format is quickest and easiest for you and leave it up to the downloaders to clean them up as necessary for whatever device they want to play them on.

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My seedbox is is running well and truly at it upload bandwidth limit so torrenting will be slow because of high demand. Have uploaded about 50GB so far this morning. Please ensure that you seed so we can distribute this as fast as possible.
Thanks all

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Are you going to be doing this everyday? If you do I'll rent a seedbox to help everyone out

That's my plan. Uploading the torrent and Google drive file only take a minute and I'm recording the races anyway. I'll see if I can make an RSS feed to provide to those with seedboxes. Otherwise I might send the torrent out to a few people in advance of posting it on here.

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That's my plan. Uploading the torrent and Google drive file only take a minute and I'm recording the races anyway. I'll see if I can make an RSS feed to provide to those with seedboxes. Otherwise I might send the torrent out to a few people in advance of posting it on here.

yeah feel free to do that. no chance of a hd release?

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Unfortunately I as it is 5am when the racing is on I like to watch in bed so my laptop can only handle the quality you see in the ETNZ race (About 500MB for the 15-20 minutes). I will start recording all races at that higher quality. Previously I was only doing it for the ETNZ races as I want to keep those.
Come the AC finals I will be watching on my PC which should be able to handle the 1080 stream but at 1GB per minute I will need to convert to an mp4 before I upload it which may take some time.

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Unfortunately I as it is 5am when the racing is on I like to watch in bed so my laptop can only handle the quality you see in the ETNZ race (About 500MB for the 15-20 minutes). I will start recording all races at that higher quality. Previously I was only doing it for the ETNZ races as I want to keep those.
Come the AC finals I will be watching on my PC which should be able to handle the 1080 stream but at 1GB per minute I will need to convert to an mp4 before I upload it which may take some time.

copy that. If you send me the torrent tomorrow i'll be seeding as quickly as possible

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Unfortunately I as it is 5am when the racing is on I like to watch in bed so my laptop can only handle the quality you see in the ETNZ race (About 500MB for the 15-20 minutes). I will start recording all races at that higher quality. Previously I was only doing it for the ETNZ races as I want to keep those.
Come the AC finals I will be watching on my PC which should be able to handle the 1080 stream but at 1GB per minute I will need to convert to an mp4 before I upload it which may take some time.